Nuray Mert

Nuray Mert is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul University. She is a political observer and contributor to Turkey’s major newspapers (Milliyet and Hürriyet Daily News), one of the few contemporary Turkish public intellectuals with an academic background and a journalist’s investigative mind. Mert is an outspoken critic on sensitive issues in the Turkish context such as rights of minorities (the Kurdish Question), freedom of religion and of press. She was nominated by the Mediterranean Studies Forum.